Three people, including an 11-year old girl, her father and one
more civilian have died in the town of Gorlovka, the Donetsk news
agency reported, citing senior rebel commander Eduard Basurin.
Four more people have been injured, including one serviceman,
Basurin said.

The shelling on Tuesday confirms Kiev has betrayed the Minsk
agreements, by not removing heavy artillery from the region,
Basurin said. "If the artillery were removed 50 kilometers as
agreed, it could not have reached the town," the rebel
commander told the Rossiya24 channel.

Authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic
informed the OSCE monitoring mission of the incident, Basurin
said. He added that he expects the monitors to visit the site on
Wednesday to view the aftermath of “the tragedy" and
ascertain what military equipment was used in the shelling.

According to recent estimates by the UN human rights office, over
6,000 people have been killed and over 15,000 wounded in eastern
Ukraine during a year of fighting. However, the real numbers
could be much higher. At least one civilian was killed in Donetsk
a week ago, after an army shell hit an apartment building amid
intense fire on rebel positions.

Last week, the Ukrainian parliament approved a regulation that
removed the obligation to protect certain human rights in the
Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Kiev says "anti-terrorist
operations" in the area override their obligations in this
regard.

The shelling comes amid a fragile ceasefire between Kiev and the
Donbass rebels agreed in Minsk in February. Despite the
agreements reached by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and
Germany, then called the "last chance" to bring peace to
Ukraine, violence in the region has continued.